Government

Arun Jaitley to present interim budget on 1 Feb, budget session from 31 Jan

10 Jan 2019

Centre's 10% quota for economically weak gets Parliament approval

10 Jan 2019

The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Constitution (124th Amendment) Bill, 2019, with 165 'ayes' and seven `nays’ after the Lok Sabha approved it on Tuesday with 323 lawmakers supporting it and three voting against it

Kashmir IAS topper Shah Faesal resigns from service, to join politics

09 Jan 2019

Rajnath Singh introduces Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 in Lok Sabha

08 Jan 2019

The Act, which seeks to grant citizenship to migrant Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Christians and Parsis from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, allows the persecuted migrants to reside in any Indian state or union territory

Rajya Sabha session extended by a day to take up key bills

08 Jan 2019

SC reinstates exiled CBI Chief Alok Verma, quashes govt order

08 Jan 2019

The apex court set aside the centre's decision to divest the CBI director of his powers and said the committee which appointed the CBI director will have to consider matter afresh

Direct tax collections for April-December FY19 up 14% at Rs8,74,000 cr

07 Jan 2019

Govt infuses Rs10,882 cr in UCO Bank, Syndicate Bank, BoM and Central Bank

02 Jan 2019

GST revenue collection drops to Rs94,726 cr in December

02 Jan 2019

Aadhaar to be made voluntary for banking, mobile connections

18 Dec 2018

ADB retains India’s growth forecast at 7.3% for FY19

12 Dec 2018

It's Cong govt in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan

12 Dec 2018

While the Congress has absolute majority in the Chhattisgarh assembly, it is close to majority in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan

Former bureaucrat Shaktikanta Das appointed RBI governor

11 Dec 2018

Das, an experienced bureaucrat who has held key positions both under the ruling BJP as well the previous UPA government, had also worked closely with the central bank and is currently a member of the Finance Commission of India and government’s representative at the G 20 summits

BJP faces biggest poll reversal as 3 states veer away

11 Dec 2018

BJP has been done down by a combination of factors, including rural dissatisfaction, especially among farmers, failure to create jobs for the youth and the lynching of people by the so-called save-the-cow brigade

Direct tax collections up 15.7% at Rs6,75,000 cr in April-November

11 Dec 2018

ISB Professor Krishnamurthy Subramanian appointed new CEA

07 Dec 2018

Subramanian, one of the world’s leading experts in banking and economic policy, serves on the RBI expert committee on governance of banks and is a member of Sebi’s Standing Committee on Alternative Investment Policy headed by Narayana Murthy

RBI to trim banks’ liquidity reserve ratio to 18% in 6 quarters

06 Dec 2018

Since the reduction in SLR from 19.5 per cent to 18 per cent will limit banks’ need for government securities, finance ministry officials say the measure that will help release over Rs1,00,000 crore of liquidity into the system will have some implications for the government securities

And now, Punjab minister Sidhu shows up with pro-Khalistan activist

29 Nov 2018

Assembly polls over in Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh; counting on 11 Dec

28 Nov 2018

Govt revives task force to redraft direct tax laws

27 Nov 2018

Aircel-Maxis case: CBI gets govt sanction to prosecute Chidambaram

26 Nov 2018

In a major blow to former union minister and senior Congress leader, P Chidambaram, the centre has given sanction to prosecute him in the Aircel Maxis case

Govt won’t need RBI cash for next 6 months: Arun Jaitley

26 Nov 2018

India plans corridor from Gurdaspur to Pak border to link Kartarpur Sahib

22 Nov 2018

J-K assembly dissolved, new alliance plan stymied

22 Nov 2018

The dissolution of the assembly comes as a respite for political watchers after a day of political speculation about the banding together of divergent groups that are friendly to terror

PDP-Congress-NCP alliance set to form govt in Kashmir

21 Nov 2018

If talks succeed, Altaf Bukhari, a senior PDP leader and former finance minister under the PDP-BJP coalition government and Jammu and Kashmir’s richest legislator, could be the new chief minister, say reports